Running 3 browser windows, 20 tabs, pc struggling

Cru54d3r

Cru54d3r

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I keep a load of browser windows open as I trade some crypto here and there, alongside some other general browser tabs for email, whatsapp, amazon etc

Have tried various different browsers (chrome, brave, firefox) but all seem to hog loads of cpu and memory. Currently on latest firefox and those 20 tabs are using 22-26% CPU and 11,000MB memory. Having some issues where responsiveness on tabs is suffering and theres lag opening links etc

I appreciate that all those tabs are likely to cause some demand, I guess I'm just wondering what people would suggest as to making it all run faster.

Currently got a 5600x, MSI B550I mobo, 32gb 3200 DDR4 mem, 1 nvme for windows, 3080ti gpu (plus some other components). Any thoughts on what I should change, or would nothing much improve it? Eg could move to a 5800x3d, or get more and faster memory?

Only other thought would be to get a second pc box and split the usage across the two machines

Thanks!
 
I find it hard to believe your usage scenario is enough to make it significantly slow down. Any other performance anomalies?

I have a habit of not closing tabs, have hundreds open. It makes absolutely no difference in performance in Firefox for me. But thats because it is very good at putting inactive tabs to sleep.
In your case these are all active pages I guess.

Tried adblocks? uBlock origin makes a huge difference, reducing amount of JS crap running on every page.

CPU and memory upgrades can only help a tiny bit. While browser performance will like any improvement in CPU clock and memory latency, there is only so much you can improve on that platform. Better off PBO, CO optimising your cpu and maybe tighten timings on existing memory.
Cache of 5800X3D will make no difference.

Also, could it be network related? Something eating all network bandwidth making other tabs slow down?
 
alec said:
I find it hard to believe your usage scenario is enough to make it significantly slow down. Any other performance anomalies?

I have a habit of not closing tabs, have hundreds open. It makes absolutely no difference in performance in Firefox for me. But thats because it is very good at putting inactive tabs to sleep.
In your case these are all active pages I guess.

Tried adblocks? uBlock origin makes a huge difference, reducing amount of JS crap running on every page.

CPU and memory upgrades can only help a tiny bit. While browser performance will like any improvement in CPU clock and memory latency, there is only so much you can improve on that platform. Better off PBO, CO optimising your cpu and maybe tighten timings on existing memory.
Cache of 5800X3D will make no difference.

Also, could it be network related? Something eating all network bandwidth making other tabs slow down?
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Running ublock yes, majority of tabs are constantly refreshing with new price action - not sure if that makes much of a difference, i guess the page isnt just loaded and then static
Will try playing around with PBO
Wont be network related, running Cat7 cables in the house to my wifi6 router, im the only one using the internet

Thanks
 
I've got 3x browser windows open with ~17 tabs each using Firefox and sure it does use a lot of memory with FF using a separate process for most tabs but CPU wise it is sitting at around 0-1% CPU use nominally unless there is media active in a tab where it can increase a bit. That is on a ageing Xeon 1650 V2 and Windows 7.

I have a similar setup on my Windows 10 laptop, which has a 10870H, and that uses a bit more CPU - probably double the amount compared to my Windows 7 system :( as Windows 10 is **** for idle CPU use but still everything runs smoothly.

EDIT: Mostly this is static content unless I have a YouTube video playing, etc. some live text feeds but nothing that intensive - if I load up a few pages with more active content it increases the CPU use a fair bit but the browser still remains responsive - though I can feel the difference when gaming.
 
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Grim5 said:
Sounds weird, a couple dozen browser tabs should not be causing problems for a 5600x and 32gb of RAM
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TBF when chrome gets to 11 i struggle. and i have had black screens (bad ram OC)

What sort of tabs are you running. my system as problems with live tabs(media like you tube playing) and not just open pages.
if your running tabs then need to auto refresh over and over its going to kick the ass of your CPU and RAM and all i could think is get a second laptop or try running 2 or 3 browsers at the same time.
the windows browsers is almost a cope of chrome now days find one that runs on a different programming type to try and split the load over different type of the CPU...

also i dont know how it works now day but you used to be able to tell the programs to use different CPU cores. right now your only at 26% but that could all be on one thread again 2 different browsers and try to split the load
 
Couple more ideas what could be causing this

Antivirus (should see a big part of that CPU usage to something other than browser)
Low power power plan (monitor cpu clocks)
 
Cru54d3r said:
I keep a load of browser windows open as I trade some crypto here and there, alongside some other general browser tabs for email, whatsapp, amazon etc

Have tried various different browsers (chrome, brave, firefox) but all seem to hog loads of cpu and memory. Currently on latest firefox and those 20 tabs are using 22-26% CPU and 11,000MB memory. Having some issues where responsiveness on tabs is suffering and theres lag opening links etc

I appreciate that all those tabs are likely to cause some demand, I guess I'm just wondering what people would suggest as to making it all run faster.

Currently got a 5600x, MSI B550I mobo, 32gb 3200 DDR4 mem, 1 nvme for windows, 3080ti gpu (plus some other components). Any thoughts on what I should change, or would nothing much improve it? Eg could move to a 5800x3d, or get more and faster memory?

Only other thought would be to get a second pc box and split the usage across the two machines

Thanks!
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Yes internet browsers sadly are memory hogs but... Firefox with 20 tabs using 22-26% CPU usage? That not right, my Firefox Nightly with 30 tabs using only 0.4% of 2% CPU usage.

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Maybe try upgrade Firefox to Firefox Nightly could fix high CPU usage?

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Possible solution for Firefox Opening Links in New Tabs is Slow and Laggy, believed to be caused by antivirus.

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Firefox, Chrome and Bravo are memory hogs but Edge came top used least memory resource.

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I used 3 browsers Chrome, Edge and Firefox Nightly with 32GB RAM. I often opened so many tabs up to 100-200 tabs opened saw memory hog grew to 70-90% and checked browser task manager to find some each tab used 1 to 4GB memory leaks, I copied link address and pasted link to opened new tab used 200MB then closed 1 tab to free up 1-4GB wasted memory leaks. I also used Norton 360 antivirus which is very wonderful never caused issue with apps, games, internet browsers and used very low to no CPU usage.

Maybe one day I will upgrade my 32GB RAM to 64GB RAM to manage my internet browsers high memory usage. It never an issue with my old CPUs Intel Core i7 8700K, Intel i7 4500U, Intel Atom Z3735F and Intel Core 2 Duo T7200 on Windows 10 32 bit and Windows 11 64 bit.

If none of above solutions fix your issue then guess you will need upgrade to 64GB RAM.
 
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AthlonXP1800 said:
Yes internet browsers sadly are memory hogs but... Firefox with 20 tabs using 22-26% CPU usage? That not right, my Firefox Nightly with 30 tabs using only 0.4% of 2% CPU usage.
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would that not be dependent on what on the tabs? if you have 30 porn hub tabs opne i would expect to see high GPU usage.. i dont know what his tabs contain but it could be perfectly normal
 
mostly crypto tabs, as mentioned in original post, sites like this: https://www.binance.com/en/trade/BTC_USDT?theme=dark&type=spot

appreciate all the help so far, have isolated the worse offender to this to be tweetdeck, and it would appear im not the only one with that issue, so perhaps its more of a tweetdeck issue than general tab number issue.

I'm going to guess anyone running lots of binance type tabs, regardless of browser, might also have high cpu and ram usage?
 
opened the tab a few times...

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someone with an intell chip open it 15 times and see what load you get. it could just be the way AMD works with that load
 
That site, for one tab, puts 3-7% load on my CPU on Firefox Windows 7 and about double that with Firefox on Windows 10. I've not tried opening like 15 versions of it.
 
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